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julius peppers still a free agent

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i wonder why no one has picked him up yet.imagine dorsey, hali, peppers, johnson,vrabel and curry to lead our front seven along with someone else that would sound like an awesome front seven.then add in carr,flowers,page,and pollard. oh yeah superbowl bound

I was thinking about this myself after we announced Pendergrast, and all signs pointed to us running a hybrid D. Peppers already is a great DE for the 4-3, and he probably could be a decent OLB for a 3-4.

Unfortunately he was franchised by carolina, so it will probably take more (in terms of draft picks) than I am willing to give them to get him over here. Unless Pioli can force someone into letting us trade down, and then we pick up another late 1st rounder or early 2nd rounder, and the planets line up just right, and we offer our 2nd rounder for him along with a sacrificial goat ... and we use our mid 1st rounder for someone like Cushing or Clay Matthews.

But, lets get hypothetical for a second. Say we were to get Peppers, I think we would have a relatively formidable D. In the 4-3 we would have:

and then to move to a 3-4, all that would have to happen is Peppers drop back to LB so it would look like:

Peppers / DJ / Vrabel / Draft
Dorsey // Tank // Hali

I think that would be pretty strong against both the run and the pass for 2-3 years before Peppers starts to decline significantly. By then we would probably be fully transitioned to whichever defense we are going to stick with. Also, we would have probably drafted a replacement for guys like Peppers and Vrabel, and allowed them to develop for a year or two under their tutelage.

I was thinking about this myself after we announced Pendergrast, and all signs pointed to us running a hybrid D. Peppers already is a great DE for the 4-3, and he probably could be a decent OLB for a 3-4.

Unfortunately he was franchised by carolina, so it will probably take more (in terms of draft picks) than I am willing to give them to get him over here. Unless Pioli can force someone into letting us trade down, and then we pick up another late 1st rounder or early 2nd rounder, and the planets line up just right, and we offer our 2nd rounder for him along with a sacrificial goat ... and we use our mid 1st rounder for someone like Cushing or Clay Matthews.

But, lets get hypothetical for a second. Say we were to get Peppers, I think we would have a relatively formidable D. In the 4-3 we would have:

and then to move to a 3-4, all that would have to happen is Peppers drop back to LB so it would look like:

Peppers / DJ / Vrabel / Draft
Dorsey // Tank // Hali

I think that would be pretty strong against both the run and the pass for 2-3 years before Peppers starts to decline significantly. By then we would probably be fully transitioned to whichever defense we are going to stick with. Also, we would have probably drafted a replacement for guys like Peppers and Vrabel, and allowed them to develop for a year or two under their tutelage.

A man can dream cant he ...

Great point and good breakdown. Too bad, Carolina wouldnt take anything less than a limb for Peppers.

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and Ungrateful, do the Impossible.
We have been doing so much,
for so long, with so little
We are now Qualified to do Anything with Nothing!